Validate with a custom function

[Raybaudi]

Hi

while playng with Get(ActiveFieldName), I found that this function can be used in a custom function and gives back the name of the field specified as parameter of the function itself.

Look at the attachment.

It launch a script too, but you have to have the S4HU plugin

Validate.zip

[Kent Searight]

You can do the same thing much more easily with Field Validation, your calculation, an auto-enter calc in field Validate, and without S4HU Plug-in or script.

[Raybaudi]

ofcourse...

but the intriguing thing is the possibility of grab the field name... just what we searched for your topic about evaluate()

[Kent Searight]

Right. Without the plug-in, Get (ActiveFieldName) returns the name of the last field you were in, not the current one. It's almost as if FM, Inc. created Get(ActiveFieldName) with the S4HU plug-in in mind.

[Raybaudi]

Right.

That is the strange thing...

I think that this "feature" can help for something more complex !

[comment]

Get (ActiveFieldName) returns the name of the last field you were in, not the current one.

I am afraid that is incorrect. Get (ActiveFieldName) returns the name of the field currently containing the cursor. "Currently" means at the time of the evaluation.

[-Queue-]

That is why it returns the previously activated field when used in a field definition; the field is not re-evaluated until it is exited.

[Kent Searight]

Ahhh, interesting...then I stand corrected. Thanks comment and -Queue- for setting the record straight!